From: "Geo." 

Corrupt? No more than it would corrupt the OS by moving the hard drive from
one machine to another because the motherboard died from bad capacitors.

Lets say when you purchase a server you buy them in quantity, all identical
(like a web server farm) and so you buy a couple spare machines. All the
machines either come with a windows image installed or you make your own.
Ok now disaster strikes (earthquake/fire/theft whatever) or better yet the
machine gets hacked (so you need to do forensics on the old box), so you
bring up a new box, restore to it from tape and presto you are back up and
running.

This is a typical use of a backup strategy designed to save your business
in case of disaster.

I suppose if the copy protection has tied the OS to a different physical
machine, yes it would corrupt the install which basically means copy
protection has screwed up a standard disaster recovery plan.

Geo.

"Gary Britt"  wrote in
message news:45c6a000$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> If you install an OS on the new machine first and then restore the backup
> won't that corrupt the OS install on the new machine by overwriting the OS
> with the old OS that is tied to a different machine.
>
> Gary

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